Michelle Daniels, Author at The Results Consultancy

We would like to wish you a very Happy Christmas and prosperous 2015. This year instead of sending out Christmas cards we have given a donation to Springhill Hospice.

Springhill provides specialist palliative care for people with life-limiting illnesses and we know from first hand experience that the team there do a fantastic job. It is an independent charitable organisation and has to rely on voluntary…

Our research in the sector has found that, despite an upturn in the economy this year, clients of professional services firms continued to face increasing pressure to reduce costs and work to fixed budgets.

As a result many are rejecting old hourly rate pricing models and insisting their professional advisers come forward with alternatives such as fixed or capped fees.

At the same time, trust and the quality of the…

You probably know the well-known fact that if you give a 10% reduction in the top line fees (revenues) on a matter it has the effect of a 30% hit on your bottom line profit for the job. If you don’t believe us, check it out with your finance team.

Struck by this, and recognising the critical importance of maintaining profitability on assignments, we have developed a half day workshop….

We’ve experienced increasing interest in our webinar workshops recently.

These enable firms to deliver BD skills training to their professionals across multiple locations – helping them to embed best practice and a consistent approach.

Webinars also assist those firms in minimising the travel and other related training costs.

In response to the interest we’ve received, we’ve put together this overview of the webinar topics we cover and you can also find out…

Our latest Winning Business Digest addresses the often-asked question – ‘Just how do you write a work-winning pitch?’

Of course few people secure every piece of business they bid for – and there are many more facets to winning a pitch than writing an effective document. Many teams, however, do continue to lose pitches because they fail to write a readable, engaging proposal that sets out why they…

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